Rangers

With most of the focus of Wednesday’s UEFA Champions League matches on the Inter Milan and Barcelona encounter with Samuel Eto’o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic playing against their old clubs, most fans might have either left the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, Italy a little disappointed with a 0-0 score line between both clubs.

Those watching on television were probably disappointed in the result also.

It was a scrappy game to begin with as both Ibrahimovic and Eto’o though the highlight of the game, failed to put a shot on target throughout the 90 minutes.

When the United States Men’s national team file up later today against the Soca Warriors of Trinidad and Tobago, it has to be for three points and nothing less.

Though the Bob Bradley-led team put together a scrappy 2-1 win over El Salvador over the weekend in Sandy, Utah at Real Salt Lake’ new stadium Rio Tinto, the team has to approach their Port-of-Spain game with a win-or-go-home mentality.

So Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez are not the only major names in Baseball to test positive. Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz and key member of their World Series championship in 2004 and 2007, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.

Ortiz and Ramirez were among more than 100 MLB players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, according to a report in the New York Times.

A month ago the New York Yankees were in third place, now they sit atop the most challenging division in Major League Baseball. One of the main reasons for the success of the Yanks’ has been their defense.

Game Two – New York Rangers vs. Washington Capitals
1:00pm EST, April 18, 2009, Verizon Center, Washington, DC (TV: NBC)

As the last traces of snow finally begin to melt and spring begins to make its way in, we are aware that the winter sports season is coming to an end.

We have already seen baseball go through one spectacular opening day, filled with celebrity first pitches, fans calling in sick to attend nationally televised games and all the grandeur that comes with baseball fans and their excitement that the new season is finally here.

The defending Super Bowl champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers will kick off the 2009 NFL regular season with a home game against the Tennessee Titans.